Re: Incubation Request - Drawy

Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.kde.devel.general
Message-ID <2809515.mvXUDI8C0e@xps15>
El dijous, 4 de desembre del 2025, a les 15:31:41 (Hora estàndard d’Europa 
central), Prayag Jain va escriure:
> Hi,
> I'm Prayag Jain, the developer of Drawy, a free and open source
> whiteboard app written in C++ and Qt6, featuring an infinite canvas. I'm
> willing to make Drawy a part of KDE by following the KDE incubation process
> mentioned here <https://develop.kde.org/docs/getting-started/add-project/>.
> At the moment, KDE is missing a good whiteboard app, which is an essential
> tool many people expect their operating systems to already have. For
> example, Microsoft Whiteboard is a tool used by millions of people on
> Windows 11. I believe Drawy can fill this gap and provide the KDE Community
> with a stable and fast whiteboard app which can fulfill their brainstorming
> needs.
> 
> I'm writing this mail in order to request a sponsor for the incubation
> process of Drawy. The relevant incubation request issue can be found here
> <https://invent.kde.org/prayag/drawy/-/issues/79> on KDE Invent.

I'll be happy to be your incubator sponsor.

I am travelling this weekend to the KDE PIM sprint in Paris so I will have 
spotty availability, but let's for sure connect next Tuesday at the latest 
(I'll ping you on Matrix).

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> 
> *The following are some details about Drawy and its future plans:*Drawy is
> a free and open source whiteboard app written in Qt/C++. It aims to be a
> desktop native alternative to the web-based Excalidraw. It features an
> infinite canvas with a relatively simple and easy to use interface. Its
> main features are:
> 
>    1. An infinite canvas with infinite zoom
>    2. Essential tools: Pen, shapes, selection, move, eraser, and text tool.
>    3. Undo and redo
>    4. Save and load files
>    5. Group/ungroup multiple items
>    6. Drawing tablet support with pressure sensitivity
>    7. Dark/Light mode
> 
> We also plan to document the entire code-base using Doxygen style comments
> to make it easier for new contributors to get started.
> 
> I hope the KDE Community will be able to benefit by adopting Drawy as an
> official whiteboard app.
> 
> Regards,
> Prayag Jain
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